1895. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE XATIUXAL AllSELM. 765 



Family LITHOSIID.F.. 



Genus UTETHEISA, Huhiier. 



UTETHEISA PULCHELLA, Linnaeus. 



Tinea pnlcheUa, Linx.kus. Syst. Nat.. I. p. 5H4, n. 238 (1758). 



Two specimens. 



Genus ARGINA, Hubner. 



ARGINA AMANDA, Boisduval. 



Eiichelia amanda, Boisduval, Apj). Yoy. l)el«,u. dans I'AtV. Austr., II, p. 5!»7. ii. 133 



(1847). 



Six specimeus. 



Family HYFSID^. 



Genus ELIGM A, Hubner. 



ELIGMA LiETEPICTA, Oberthur. 



EUgma lirtrpirfa, Obkutuuj;, Etudes d'Eut , XVII. p. 32, ])!. i, lig. 6 (1893). 



Eleven specimens. 



Family i!^YCTEMERID^. 



Genus NYCTEMERA, Hubner. 



NYCTEMERA LEUCONOE, Hopffer. 



Niictemera lencome, Hopkber. Moaatsber. d. K. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1857, p. 422.— 

 Peters' Reise u. Mossaiub., lus., p. 430 pi. xxviii, fig. 3 (1862). 



Five specimens. 



Family LTPAr.ID.E. 



Genus RHAN IDOPHORA, AA^allengren. 



RHANIDOPHORA PHEDONIA, Stoll. 



Bomhiix 2>hedonia, t^TOLL, Cramer's Pap. Exot., I\', pi. CCCXLVii, fig. C (1782), 

 Isochroa vhnyna(jidt<i. Felukh, Xov. Keise, lus., pi. c, lig. 2(5. 

 One si)ecimen. 



Family LASIOCAMPID.F. 



METAJANA, new genus. 



Tongne obsolete. Palpi small, densely covered with hairs; terminal 

 joint pl-qjecting downward. Front den.sely clothed with long appressed 

 hairs projecting downward and overlapping the extremity of the palpi. 

 Antenna- moderately long, bipectinate, the pectinations moderately 

 long, both, series compressed and projecting downwardly much as in 

 the^genus Jana. The teguhe are moderately long, covering the inser- 

 tion of the primaries and the secondaries. Abdomen robust, projecting 

 beyond the anal angle of the secondaries for one-fourth of its length. 

 The femora and tibia- of all of the legs are densely covered with long 

 hairs. The primaries have the costa ]iearly straight ibr three-fourths 

 of their length from the base and slightly curved before the apex; the 



